If you need the education, you are merely short-changing yourself.
But if you need the diploma to get a job interview, and the education has no relevance to the job except for the interview, then the situation is different.
One of many ways in which high unemployment is dysfunctional for society.
If people like me are grouped in with those criminals merely because I share one chromosome with them, then it's *exactly* the same kind of stereotyping and discrimination, and I am personally offended by it.
One is a desktop environment. The other is a tablet-based point of sale system.
A Slashdot audience may understand, but I think you are massively overestimating how obvious the distinction would be to the general public. It will be about as clear as GNU versus Linux.
It's hard to imagine a single speech would cause the Soviet system to crumble
It depends on what exactly you mean by "the Soviet system", but the speech where Gorbachev convinced the CPSU to hold competitive elections might qualify.
Ideally, a licensing should be to verify that a particular individual has a licence in good standing. The person supplies the already-known information and the government only confirms that it's valid.
It's not the same as other public records where there is a public interest in having all the information.
Usually I like hearing about research that 'confirms' very obvious features of human nature, because it's valuable to measure things, even obvious things, quantitatively. But this experiment doesn't sound all that rigorous.
Which part? The part where he disagrees that buying a vehicle one can barely afford and has no practical use for can be equated with hunger, satiety, and metabolic levels, which are driven by instincts and at least 25 different chemicals in complex feedback reactions?
I applaud Blanke for conducting this research and perhaps it will generate quantitative data that will eventually help epileptics and schizophrenics, but I'm not clear why any of this would be surprising. If you are in a building where there are low frequency sounds, that you can perceive subconsciously but cannot hear consciously, you may get a feeling that it is haunted. If you see a light in the sky moving so slowly that your brain interprets it as simultaneously stationary and moving, you may feel that you are seeing a UFO. The "region of her brain responsible for integrating different sensory signals" should be the logical place to associate with feelings of the paranormal.
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...but I don't see where the problem is unless you think the humans are too expensive. It's not a dangerous profession the way it used to be.
Britain has struggled - successfully - for freedom of speech for hundreds of years before the US existed.
They do not, however, make a religion out of it, and don't live in a theocracy anyway.
Maybe unhappy people are just more likely to perceive their bosses as incompetent at something or other. Because obviously the problem isn't them.
If you need the education, you are merely short-changing yourself.
But if you need the diploma to get a job interview, and the education has no relevance to the job except for the interview, then the situation is different.
One of many ways in which high unemployment is dysfunctional for society.
If you billed your client for a full day's work for what you accomplished in 20 minutes, then you committed fraud.
That's what the students are accused of.
This can only mean that Mono is about to catch up.
If people like me are grouped in with those criminals merely because I share one chromosome with them, then it's *exactly* the same kind of stereotyping and discrimination, and I am personally offended by it.
One is a desktop environment. The other is a tablet-based point of sale system.
A Slashdot audience may understand, but I think you are massively overestimating how obvious the distinction would be to the general public. It will be about as clear as GNU versus Linux.
So.... now they suddenly care about their users.
Hipster is all about defining oneself as a hipster.
The rest of the world actually doesn't care.
Those are not rights in civilized countries, and Canada is one of them.
There is no shortage of examples in business or politics of people making short-term expedient decisions even knowing the long-term costs.
Usually slaves were the prisoners of war who were allowed to live.
Maybe death is preferable to slavery, but it's hardly unequivocal.
It's hard to imagine a single speech would cause the Soviet system to crumble
It depends on what exactly you mean by "the Soviet system", but the speech where Gorbachev convinced the CPSU to hold competitive elections might qualify.
And who does he think he is praying for them without their consent? To a spiritual person, surely that's the greater breach of privacy.
Ideally, a licensing should be to verify that a particular individual has a licence in good standing. The person supplies the already-known information and the government only confirms that it's valid.
It's not the same as other public records where there is a public interest in having all the information.
he must've thought the state were simple peasant rubes.
You seem to be agreeing with his assessment.
Usually I like hearing about research that 'confirms' very obvious features of human nature, because it's valuable to measure things, even obvious things, quantitatively. But this experiment doesn't sound all that rigorous.
Turns out that if the cure is worse than the disease people don't want the cure...
Some people seem to be 'denying' that that actually is the rational attitude.
I'm guessing he has experience with Microsoft, with respect to which his opinion is highly informed.
There was a crime, and Oracle was a willing accomplice.
Which part? The part where he disagrees that buying a vehicle one can barely afford and has no practical use for can be equated with hunger, satiety, and metabolic levels, which are driven by instincts and at least 25 different chemicals in complex feedback reactions?
I applaud Blanke for conducting this research and perhaps it will generate quantitative data that will eventually help epileptics and schizophrenics, but I'm not clear why any of this would be surprising. If you are in a building where there are low frequency sounds, that you can perceive subconsciously but cannot hear consciously, you may get a feeling that it is haunted. If you see a light in the sky moving so slowly that your brain interprets it as simultaneously stationary and moving, you may feel that you are seeing a UFO. The "region of her brain responsible for integrating different sensory signals" should be the logical place to associate with feelings of the paranormal.
Presumably a false vacuum would be different from nothing.
Well, they might be.